VLVL 4: War, politics and love

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> I'm sorry but these people naturally tell things only from their
> point of
> view which isn't, given the fact that they've left Vietnam, very
> objective.
> Many of the so-called "boat people" over here aren't refugees (except
> the
> ones who worked for the corrupt government or the US-troops) but came
> for
> economical reasons. I wouldn't base my knowledge of WW-2 on tales of
> Germans
> who went to Argentina or Paraguay.

What in heaven's name is wrong with emigration for economic reasons? It
is probably the *best* reason to want to emigrate. If you are hungry
you go where your stomach tells you to go. And why would you only want
to hear the witness of those who *won* a war? 

It is weird to equate, as you do here, economic refugees with escaped
Nazis. Bleedin' weird, is what that is. And freekin' creepy. I'm sorry,
but it just *is*.
 
Can't you imagine that the North Vietnamese regime might have been, by
any definition, at least as "corrupt" as the regime in the south?
Heavens. What kind of suck did you have to have to get rice for your
pot in Hanoi? There are poor and powerful everywhere. Wake up and rub
your eyes. It was a horrible time, with wicked criminal sh** being done
on both sides.

"So-called 'boat-people'" indeed. How about 'so-called "guest
workers"'? Too many people with funny names in Germany these days?

Pardon the rant...
Mark



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